Digital technologies are an increasingly integral component of many adolescents’ daily lives. When adolescents encounter adversity, they often turn to mobile phones or computers to find resources for navigating these situations. Digital environments present both potential risks and benefits to supporting youth well-being and it is therefore crucial to promote intentional engagement with these tools in the context of youth resilience. This chapter begins by discussing the ecological perspective of resilience, considering various levels of digital access, skills, and impacts, while emphasizing the value of youth participation and leadership in shaping digital interventions. This participation should occur throughout the lifecycle of digital tool development to ensure alignment with the needs of young people. Frameworks for positive technology can help to guide these processes by ensuring that the psychological, social, environmental, and physical impacts of these technologies are considered. The final section offers examples of how everyday technologies can promote resource access and skill building in young people. Because of the pervasive and expanding nature of technology in young people’s lives, it’s vitally important that these tools are created and used thoughtfully by considering contextual factors, youth voices, and well-being impacts. As we reflect on maximizing beneficial ways of engaging with technology, it is important that this is a continuing conversation with relevant stakeholders including policy makers, technologists, psychologists, students, caregivers, and school staff members.

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Mindful Digital Engagement: Leveraging Everyday Technology to Enhance Youth Resilience

  • Justin Laiti,
  • Jolanta Burke

摘要

Digital technologies are an increasingly integral component of many adolescents’ daily lives. When adolescents encounter adversity, they often turn to mobile phones or computers to find resources for navigating these situations. Digital environments present both potential risks and benefits to supporting youth well-being and it is therefore crucial to promote intentional engagement with these tools in the context of youth resilience. This chapter begins by discussing the ecological perspective of resilience, considering various levels of digital access, skills, and impacts, while emphasizing the value of youth participation and leadership in shaping digital interventions. This participation should occur throughout the lifecycle of digital tool development to ensure alignment with the needs of young people. Frameworks for positive technology can help to guide these processes by ensuring that the psychological, social, environmental, and physical impacts of these technologies are considered. The final section offers examples of how everyday technologies can promote resource access and skill building in young people. Because of the pervasive and expanding nature of technology in young people’s lives, it’s vitally important that these tools are created and used thoughtfully by considering contextual factors, youth voices, and well-being impacts. As we reflect on maximizing beneficial ways of engaging with technology, it is important that this is a continuing conversation with relevant stakeholders including policy makers, technologists, psychologists, students, caregivers, and school staff members.